John Tasker (other)
John Tasker may refer to: * John Tasker (sea captain) (1742–1800) * John Tasker (cricketer) (1887–1975), British cricketer * John Tasker (theatre director) ( – 1988), Australian theatre director * John Tasker (1659–1730/31), son-in-law of Thomas Brooke Jr. * John Tasker (jockey) (died 1855), rode in 1850 Grand National {{hndis, Tasker, John ...
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John Tasker (sea Captain)
John Tasker (1742–1800) was a Welsh people, Welsh sea captain and shipowner who became the East India Company's Captain of the Port, Master Attendant at Bombay (now Mumbai) and purchased the Upton Castle estate in his native Pembrokeshire where he was High Sheriff in 1798. Arrival in India and early maritime career Seeking his fortune as a free mariner, Tasker was a passenger on the maiden voyage of the East Indiaman ''Anson'' and arrived at Bombay on 30 September 1764. He quickly found employment on so-called Country Ships trading along the coast of India and into China, and by 1774 was captain of the ''Louisa'', owned by Governor William Hornby (governor), William Hornby. In 1775 he was paid 10,000 Bombay rupees for carrying East India Company troops from Madras (now Chennai) to Bombay, and in December that year he was accompanied by the traveller Abraham Parsons on the ''Louisas passage southward along the Malabar Coast. Parsons, whose account of the voyage was later published, ...
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